The Useful Cobbler: Edmund Burke and the Politics of ProgressNeither a polemic nor a highly specialized study, this book is a comprehensive assessment of Burke's political thought. Using evidence from such neglected sources as Burke's essays on history and law and making full use of his extensive correspondence, the author places Burke in the context of developments in a number of areas of eighteenth-century British intellectual life, ranging from philosophy to literature, and presents him as a key figure in the evolution of the theory and practice of representative government. |
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... opinion , Burke is no more than a vaguely sympathetic precursor of modern Conservatism . Why is there such controversy about Burke ? Quinton makes a useful point when he distinguishes between two different conserva- tive traditions ...
... opinion , Burke is no more than a vaguely sympathetic precursor of modern Conservatism . Why is there such controversy about Burke ? Quinton makes a useful point when he distinguishes between two different conserva- tive traditions ...
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... opinion , his key contribution was his formulation of a conception of politics which identified political change as the central issue of the day and which defined representative government as the appropri- ate mediator of that change ...
... opinion , his key contribution was his formulation of a conception of politics which identified political change as the central issue of the day and which defined representative government as the appropri- ate mediator of that change ...
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... opinion , must subscribe to certain political values . For example , he must support a politics based on the reconciliation of interests . Burke wrote of the English constitution : " there is a perpetual treaty and compromise going on ...
... opinion , must subscribe to certain political values . For example , he must support a politics based on the reconciliation of interests . Burke wrote of the English constitution : " there is a perpetual treaty and compromise going on ...
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... opinion , it is no accident that Burke's initial writings sought to provide an em- pirical psychological basis for values , and , when that effort failed , petered out into incoherence . Burke's characteristic attacks on ab- stractions ...
... opinion , it is no accident that Burke's initial writings sought to provide an em- pirical psychological basis for values , and , when that effort failed , petered out into incoherence . Burke's characteristic attacks on ab- stractions ...
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... opinion , Burke was prepared to accept a broad range of governmental action and was , in fact , neither a laissez - faire ideologue nor an advocate of natural - rights limitations on the state . Rather , he took a position quite close ...
... opinion , Burke was prepared to accept a broad range of governmental action and was , in fact , neither a laissez - faire ideologue nor an advocate of natural - rights limitations on the state . Rather , he took a position quite close ...
Contents
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The Whiggism of History and the History of Whiggism | 53 |
Burke on the Foundations and Nature of Government | 85 |
Burke on the Nature and Extent of State Authority | 113 |
The Politics of Trusteeship | 137 |
Political Parties and Their Uses | 161 |
The Decline and Fall of the Theory of Sovereignty | 185 |
The French Revolution and the Crisis of European | 215 |
Ireland India and the Deluge | 251 |
Notes | 275 |
Bibliography | 341 |
Index | 355 |
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